HTML pages designed & maintained by Alifuru67 Copyright © 1999/2000 - 1364283024 & 1367286044		Want to Help? CRISIS CENTRE DIOCESE OF AMBOINA Jalan Pattimura 32 - Ambon 97124 - Indonesia Tel 0062 (0)911 342195 Fax 0062 (0)911 355337 E-mail: compro@ambon.wasantara.net.id Ambon, January 21, 2001 THE SITUATION IN AMBON / MOLUCCAS - Report no. 126 MUSLIMS VS. MUSLIMS - The conflict between Muslims in the afternoon of January 19, in which three people were wounded, did not take place at Tial, like we wrote in Report 125 no. 2, but at Waai. A motorcar travelling from Liang to Tulehu, while passing the totally destroyed and abandoned christian village of Waai, was shot at, wounding three people. Chief Military Commander I Made Yassa declared on local TV that the gunmen could not possibly have been christians, since there are not any christians in the Waai area.   MUSLIMS VS. SECURITY FORCES - Most of the shooting during the evening and the whole following night on January 19 (see Report 125 no. 2) happened between muslim gunmen and security forces, who in this case became the muslims target right away, so that they had to defend no others than themselves. According to local radio four civilians were killed in this incident. Main location of this shooting was the bordering area between the neighbourhoods of Batumerah (muslim) and Mardika (christian), town of Ambon. Four muslim civilians were arrested near the shore of Mardika on January 20 because they were in possession of weapons. One of them appeared to be a member of the provincial Legislative Council.   PATROL BOAT SHOT - At 10.30 AM, January 20, a Navy patrol boat was shot at in the bay of Ambon from the direction of Kapaha (Taman Pahlawan / War Cemetery, Tantui), only resulting in three holes in the ship. In this incident, too, security forces became target of violence.   SNIPERS - In the Pohon Pule area, town of Ambon, snipers resumed activity.   ATTACK ON WAHAI - During the last few days tenseness was building up in Wahai, a small town on the North coast of the island of Ceram, where residents consist of both christians and muslims that live together in good mutual understanding (see Report 124, no.2). In the morning of January 21, however, there was a full-scale attack on the place by muslim masses from other villages. Several dozens of houses were burned down, four civilians were seriously wounded: two by bullets, two by mishandling. Additional security forces from Masohi (local capital on the south coast) have been sent to Wahai. The christians have fled to the mountains south of the town.   C.J.Böhm MSc, Secretary of Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina Received via e-mail from : Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina Copyright © 1999-2001  - Ambon Berdarah On-Line * http://www.go.to/ambon HTML pages designed and maintained by Alifuru67 * http://www.oocities.org/maluku67 Send your comments to alifuru67@egroups.com